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Margaret Mann Phillips

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Margaret Mann Phillips
Born1906
Died1987 (aged 80–81)
NationalityBritish
OccupationAcademic
SpouseCharles Phillips
ParentRevd. Francis Arthur Mann
Academic background
EducationYork College for Girls
Alma materSomerville College, Oxford University
Thesis (1934)
Academic work
DisciplineRenaissance literature and history
InstitutionsUniversity of Bordeaux
Main interestsErasmus
Notable worksErasmus and the northern Renaissance

Margaret Mann Phillips FRSL (1906–1987)[1] was a British academic who specialized in Renaissance literature and history.[2] She is most noted for her work on Erasmus.[2]

Early and personal life

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Phillips was born on 23 January 1906 in Kimberworth, Yorkshire, England.[3] She was the daughter of a rector, the Revd. Francis Arthur Mann, and was educated first at home and later at the now-closed York College for Girls. In 1924, she won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford to study modern languages. She graduated with first class honours in French in 1927, completed a diploma in education in 1928.[3] She then undertook further study at the Sorbonne, University of Manchester, and Westfield College, London.[3]

In 1940, Phillips married Charles William Phillips.[2] Between 1945 and 1956, she took a leave from academia to devote her time to her family.[3] Together with her husband, she had one son and one daughter.[3]

Career

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Phillips' academic career started with posts at the University of Bordeaux and the University of Manchester and then at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She studied further in Paris getting her PhD from the University of Paris in 1934. Phillips became a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge University, in 1936 and lectured in French until 1945. After a period away from academia she returned to teaching in the late 1950s.[2]

Appointments

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Her appointments and fellowships included:[2]

Selected publications

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  • Erasmus and the Northern Renaissance. Hodder & Stoughton for the English Universities Press, 1949.
  • The "Adages" of Erasmus; a study with translations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1964.

References

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  1. ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65765. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ a b c d e "Obituary: M.J.H. Margaret Mann Phillips (1906–1987)" French Studies (1988) XLII(3): 377-378 doi:10.1093/fs/XLII.3.377
  3. ^ a b c d e "Margaret Mann Phillips (1906–1987)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/62263. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)